15th Anniversary Workshops
Saturday, January 25, 2025
Odd Fellows Hall
We're excited to have Robin Chow (Seattle) teach two workshops on Blues and Slow Lindy in the afternoon before our 15th Anniversary live music dance and late night party.
Schedule & Workshop Descriptions:
2:30 - 3:45 PM: Workshop 1- Blues for Beginners, Everybody Leads Everybody Follows (ELEF)
In this all-levels workshop, we go on a fundamentals journey of blues dancing - its culture, music and dance aesthetics. You’ll be shown what makes blues dancing blues, and get insight and practice into a developing the skills to being a blues dancer!
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4:00 - 5:15 PM: Workshop 2- Swing & Blues - Beyond The Basics (ELEF)
In this workshop, we’ll start with some common swing dancing movements, and take you on a musicality and cultural-based journey of understanding the foundations of those movements. We’ll dive into how that is connected to and grew out of blues dancing, and explore the similarities and differences. You’ll get to practice and play with moves and movements both familiar and new, and we’ll show you different approaches for how to change them to fit different music styles and aesthetics.
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Cost*
Advanced registration: $20 for one, $30 for both (registration available below)
At the door: $25 for one, $35 for both​
*We will never turn anyone away for lack of funds- please join us and pay what you can (even if that is $0)*
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About Robin (he/him):
Being a dancer who started later in life, and owing so much to the discovery of a hip hop tutorial video at the back of a You Got Served DVD, Robin truly believes that dance is inside every one of us. Whether it's a fully realized passion, or a whisper of curiosity, he feels that dance should always be available to our selves, whatever one's dance experience or familiarity. His dance repertoire is based on solo movement learned from a studio hip hop background, with the journey into social dancing starting with lindy hop, and over time including blues, balboa & fusion. And ever since his introduction to blues dancing in 2018, he has become a passionate practitioner and advocate of the form, and is dedicated to a continued journey of learning and sharing of blues dance and culture.​​​​​​​
Registration
Please follow both steps below to register:
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Step 1: Fill out the registration form here
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Step 2: Pay for one or both of the workshops:
​​​​If you have health concerns that would make it unsafe for you to attend our events given the current COVID-19 surge, please reach out. We don't want a need for more extensive prevention (e.g., masking) to be the reason you are excluded from learning to dance with us.​​